One of those Sunday evening period serials, shown, I think, in 1980, and featuring the antics of three mischievous teenage boys at a boarding school in the nineteenth century. The closing credits always showed them doing this odd little dance together. I cannot for the life of me remember the title. Does anyone else remember this?
One of those Sunday evening period serials, shown, I think, in 1980, and featuring the antics of three mischievous teenage boys at a boarding school in the nineteenth century. The closing credits always showed them doing this odd little dance together. I cannot for the life of me remember the title. Does anyone else remember this?
That was 'Stalky and Co." an adaptation of a book by Rudyard Kipling.
Anyone remember Pugwalls Summer? it was about a band in Australia
Yes, I liked that one.
Also, a show called 'Ramona' which was shown around the same time as Pugwall. About a young American (or maybe Canadian) girl and her sister. Channel 4, Sunday morning, 1989/1990 ish.
Does anyone else remember The Sunday Show from I think the mid nineties - I might be wrong but I think it may have been where Peter Kaye made his tv debut.
I used to love a show called hr puffin stuff. It was about a boy and his magic flute and witchypoo. There was also a show with a character called gnashes. I used watch it all the time
I used to love a show called hr puffin stuff. It was about a boy and his magic flute and witchypoo. There was also a show with a character called gnashes. I used watch it all the time
I think the boy in that was Jack Wild who played the artful dodger in the film Oliver. Sadly he died at a young age a few years ago from cancer. There was a programme about him before he died and how he had to have his tongue cut out as the cancer there was so bad. It made such sad watching especially when you could remember him as such a bright and talented child.
There was a series in the 80s called 'Help!', a Saturday tea-time comedy based around three Liverpudlian friends looking for work, which somehow involved them hanging around a deserted bandstand for long periods of time. Heart warming, witty, engaging - none of these words can be applied to this atrocity, and the only reason I remember it is the absolute scathing reviews it got, most of which pointed out that no-one in their right mind would employ any of the three utterly f**kwitted protagonists. Imagine 3 x 'Billy from Bread' after he's been on a massive drugs bender and you're only halfway to imagining the horror. It was pulled after only two episodes, which for a peak time BBC comedy in the eighties was almost unheard of.
One show I'm surprised was not more succesful (very few people I know recall it at all) was 'Common As Muck', with Edward Woodward, Tim Healy, and Neil Dudgeon amongst others. A great ensemble piece about a group of binmen and their families, it had a standout performance by Stephen Lord (recently in EastEnders I believe) as the troubled Jonno. I'm hoping to be shot down in flames on this one to be honest, with everyone exclaiming how well they remember the series, but whenever I mention it I'm met with the blank looks...
Does anyone else remember The Sunday Show from I think the mid nineties - I might be wrong but I think it may have been where Peter Kaye made his tv debut.
Yes. as Dennis Pennis. I think Katie Puckrick co-hosted
about an old man who lived in the
Chihuahuan Desert. Apparently it was meant to teach kids about
environmentalism and looked like something from PBS, not the commerical US
channels. I remember it because the host of the kids show ( Ray D'Arcy)actually used to slag off "Scrapiron O'Toole" mercilessly and apologise for showing it!
He showed far worst shows there and had nothing but good words for them...
Murun Buchstansangur. A little blob thing who wore a watch and shoes (no trousers!) and lived in a kitchen. I remember it being very bleak and depressing, lol.
There was a series in the 80s called 'Help!', a Saturday tea-time comedy based around three Liverpudlian friends looking for work, which somehow involved them hanging around a deserted bandstand for long periods of time. Heart warming, witty, engaging - none of these words can be applied to this atrocity, and the only reason I remember it is the absolute scathing reviews it got, most of which pointed out that no-one in their right mind would employ any of the three utterly f**kwitted protagonists. Imagine 3 x 'Billy from Bread' after he's been on a massive drugs bender and you're only halfway to imagining the horror. It was pulled after only two episodes, which for a peak time BBC comedy in the eighties was almost unheard of.
I loved this, I was only a young teen at the time, but I thought it was good.Must have been me being northern.
There is one show - a kids show (which I've mentioned in kids tv threads before) a cartoon about two warring tribes/peoples and the leader of the "evil" tribe was a huge dragon/monster which was usually set in stone form and only every now and then could it free itself and become flesh and attack the "good" tribe.
There was a series in the 80s called 'Help!', a Saturday tea-time comedy based around three Liverpudlian friends looking for work, which somehow involved them hanging around a deserted bandstand for long periods of time. Heart warming, witty, engaging - none of these words can be applied to this atrocity, and the only reason I remember it is the absolute scathing reviews it got, most of which pointed out that no-one in their right mind would employ any of the three utterly f**kwitted protagonists. Imagine 3 x 'Billy from Bread' after he's been on a massive drugs bender and you're only halfway to imagining the horror. It was pulled after only two episodes, which for a peak time BBC comedy in the eighties was almost unheard of.
One show I'm surprised was not more succesful (very few people I know recall it at all) was 'Common As Muck', with Edward Woodward, Tim Healy, and Neil Dudgeon amongst others. A great ensemble piece about a group of binmen and their families, it had a standout performance by Stephen Lord (recently in EastEnders I believe) as the troubled Jonno. I'm hoping to be shot down in flames on this one to be honest, with everyone exclaiming how well they remember the series, but whenever I mention it I'm met with the blank looks...
I remember 'Common as Muck'. It was good, well-written.
Does anyone else remember 'All Quiet on the Preston Front' from the 90s? Alistair McGowan was one of the leads in it.
Another one here which is very obscure. A friend asked me about this programme which I didn't remember at all, and apparently no-one else did either. It's 'The Happy Apple', a sitcom with Leslie Ash set in an advertising agency. It only had one short series in 1983. He reckons it was really good, and nobody argues with him because nobody else can remember it!
Murun Buchstansangur. A little blob thing who wore a watch and shoes (no trousers!) and lived in a kitchen. I remember it being very bleak and depressing, lol.
I remember this, too - it was often shown as filler during Channel Four ad breaks. I believe it disappeared in the late 90s.
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Also, a show called 'Ramona' which was shown around the same time as Pugwall. About a young American (or maybe Canadian) girl and her sister. Channel 4, Sunday morning, 1989/1990 ish.
Really good show when he joined Last Of The Summer Wine I was hoping they would have a joke about Edie looking like his Auntie
I remember it so well as I grew up in Worksop a town it often featured in it I was often upset about the way we were featured
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A few of the more upper class may have been that posh but were we far more common
re imagined by Paul Whitehouse et al as Bob Fleming.
How!
I think the boy in that was Jack Wild who played the artful dodger in the film Oliver. Sadly he died at a young age a few years ago from cancer. There was a programme about him before he died and how he had to have his tongue cut out as the cancer there was so bad. It made such sad watching especially when you could remember him as such a bright and talented child.
One show I'm surprised was not more succesful (very few people I know recall it at all) was 'Common As Muck', with Edward Woodward, Tim Healy, and Neil Dudgeon amongst others. A great ensemble piece about a group of binmen and their families, it had a standout performance by Stephen Lord (recently in EastEnders I believe) as the troubled Jonno. I'm hoping to be shot down in flames on this one to be honest, with everyone exclaiming how well they remember the series, but whenever I mention it I'm met with the blank looks...
Yes. as Dennis Pennis. I think Katie Puckrick co-hosted
"The Adventures of Scrapiron O'Toole",
http://www.worldcat.org/title/living-on-the-desert-the-adventures-of-scrapiron-otoole/oclc/072447313
about an old man who lived in the
Chihuahuan Desert. Apparently it was meant to teach kids about
environmentalism and looked like something from PBS, not the commerical US
channels. I remember it because the host of the kids show ( Ray D'Arcy)actually used to slag off "Scrapiron O'Toole" mercilessly and apologise for showing it!
He showed far worst shows there and had nothing but good words for them...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Ua0xXpd-E
Brings it all back.
There is one show - a kids show (which I've mentioned in kids tv threads before) a cartoon about two warring tribes/peoples and the leader of the "evil" tribe was a huge dragon/monster which was usually set in stone form and only every now and then could it free itself and become flesh and attack the "good" tribe.
I remember 'Common as Muck'. It was good, well-written.
Does anyone else remember 'All Quiet on the Preston Front' from the 90s? Alistair McGowan was one of the leads in it.
Blimey-that was an odd, obscure one which I have vague memories of. For a period piece it looked very 70s.
I remember this, too - it was often shown as filler during Channel Four ad breaks. I believe it disappeared in the late 90s.
Here he is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJHGg9c86fs&hl=en-GB&gl=GB